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Reading Test
60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to a~swer the questions in this sedion.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
Implied in the passage or passages and In any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).
Questions 1-9 are based on the following passage. The next afternoon at his house, Papa warned me.
This passage Is adapted from Julia Alvarez, In the Name of "You must be careful, Herminia. Baez is not the old
Salom~. ©2000 by Julia Alvarez. The protagonist of this
Baez. He would not protect his old friend if he were
novel, Salome Urena, was a well-known poet from the 30 to find out my daughter was sowing seeds of sedition.
Dominican Republic. She wrote in the latter half of the No more publishing without my permission!"
1800s, a time of great political unrest In the nation. Of course, I promised not to do what! had never
done in the first place. The following week another
Papa was at our door with a copy of El Nacional poem by Herminia was published in the paper.
rolled up under one arm and a scared look on his 35 "Una lagrima" was not out-and-out seditious, but no
face. When he unrolled the paper. and thrust it dictator could have read those lines addressed to an
Line before me, my mouth fell open. There, on the front
exile without feeling challenged. Your patria 1 still in
s page, was my poem, "Recuerdos a un proscrito," chains ... The tears you shed for her have never
which I had included in the poems I gave to my dried ... Rumors in the capital were that El Nacional
friend Miguel. It was signed "Herminia." 40 would be shut down within the week. But the paper
"!Que pasa?" Mama asked, scouring the paper up continued publishing. It seemed Baez was showing
and down. off how freedom-loving he was.
10 Papa looked at her impatiently, and then glancing For several weeks, poems appeared by Hermini9:
over his shoulder and seeing that the top of the in the paper. "Contestaci6n," "A un poeta,"
Dutch door was stfll open, he motioned for me to 45 "Una esperanza," "Ru~go," "Un gemido," and finally,
close it. After he had read the poem out loud, my "La gloria del progreso," a poem that caused an
father said, "This is seditious!" uproar. Our old friend Don Eliseo Grull6n, a
15 My mother's face shone with fierce pride. "Good statesman himself, declared whoever this Herminia
for Herminia! She is saying what we all feel and don't was, she was going to bring down the regime with
have the courage to speak." so pen and paper.
Papa looked at her for a long moment, and you Papa was beside himself. Why was I bent 9n
could see that he was just now realizing that I had defying him? Exile would be the least ofit. I was
20 never shared my pen name with my mother. It was
going to get us all killed. Finally, I had to confess that
our special secret. . it was not my doing. I had allowed some
Later that night in·bed, Ramona and I figured out 55 acquaintances to have copies. "I'm sorry, Papa."
what must have happened. Miguel had given my
poem to his friends at El Nacional to publish. All we
25 could hope for was that he had not betrayed my true
identity.
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But secretly, I was glad. Poetry, my poetry, was
waking up the body politic! Instead ofletting my
father's fears hold me back, I kept writing bolder
poems.
.! __-.
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
answer to the previous question?
60 Sometimes my hand would shake as I wrote. A) Lines 3-4 ("When ... open")
Herminia, Herminia, Herminia, I would whisper to B) Line 15 ("My ... pride")
myself. She was the brave one. She was not in thrall
to her fears. She did not quail at a harsh word. Or to C) Lines 20-21 ("It ... secret")
cry over every little thing, wasting her tears. D) Lines 51-52 ("Why ... him")
65 Secretly, in the dark cover of the night, Herminia
worked at setting Ia patria free.
And with every link she cracked open for
Ia patria. she was also setting me free. -- -'~ -•"--- ·
It can reasonably be inferred that Papa's "scared
1 homeland
look" (line 2) is caused by his concerns about
A) his friends' and neighbors' opinions.
• Which choice-best summarizes the passage?
A) A catastrophic event occurs, and the resulting
B) his family's safety and well-being.
C) the relationship between the narrator and her
mother.
disorder is analyzed. D) the narrator's desire to become a writer.
B) A painful confession is made, and several close
relationships unravel.
C) A long-standing commitment is broken, and a
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
series of repercussions follows.
answer to the previous question?
D) An unexpected discovery is made, and the events
A) Lines 10-13 ("Papa ... close it")
occurring after that discovery ate described.
B) Lines 13-14 ("After ... seditious")
•• What does the passage suggest about how Papa
relates to the narrator compared to how Mama
C) Lines 18-20 ("Papa ... mother")
D) Lines 52-53 ("I ..• killed")
relates?
A) Papa is a stricter disciplinarian with the narrator As used in line 8, "scouring" most nearly means
than Mama is.
A) searching.
B) Papa is more privy to the narrator's confidences
B) eroding.
than Mama is.
C) purging.
C) Papa is more complimentary of the narrator's
poetry than Mama is. D) waving.
D) Papa is more tolerant of the narrator's rebellious
nature than Mama is.
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-- .=~--~- - .. ~~- -·___;____.... .. __: .:.F
As used in line 15, "fierce,. most nearly means
A) distressing.
B) struggling.
Questions 1G-18 are based on the following
passage and supplementary material.
The passage is adapted from Joshua Gowin, •Nature's
Bounty: Meet Your Maker." @2009 by Psychology Today.
From the beginning of the agricultural age to the
C) intense. mid-twentieth century, the majority of our food
D) hostile. came from local farms. Following the Second World
une War, the mass cultivation of durable produce in a
5 few locations enabled distribution countrywide to
warehouse-like supermarkets. Food shopping
became a less frequent event, driven largely by price
The italicized words in lines 37-39 serve mainly to and other "rational" economic considerations.
A) convey the lyrical cadence of Herminia's words. Over several decades, taste and quality-and,
10 eventually, nutrition and food safety-were sacrificed
B) illustrate the defiant nature of Herminia's poetry. to efficiencies of production, including produce
C) represent the urgent wishes of Dominican exiles. monoculture, which weakened crop health. As food
D) demonstrate the uplifting effects of patriotic anthropologist Amy Trubek points out, America
verse. produces a great array of potato chips but only a few
rs varieties of potato.
At soine point-perhaps when antibiotics were
needed to counter the effects of mass housing of
animals-the efficiencies gained by industrialization
The main purpose of lines 56-68 is to began yielding diminishing returns. Today, recalls of
A) convey the kind of inspiration the narrator 20 contaminated meat and produce occur with alarming
requires to help her write poetry. frequency.
More subtly, however, industrial farming
B) demonstrate the inhibiting impact that Papa's
ruptured the rich web of cultural experiences
words have had on the narrator.
traditionally tied to food-conviviality, a sense of
C) provide a sense of foreboding about the 25 connection, knowledge of food vendors, trust in the
influence that the narrator's poems may have. provenance offood, and links to the past.
' Increasingly, consumers crave the personal touch in
D) reveal the effect that the publication ofher
poems has had on the narrator. food shopping and see farmers markets as the way to
restore it.
30 Geographer Robert Feagan surveyed a hundred
shoppers at a farmers market in Ontario, Canada.
He found that despite having only moderate income,
the shoppers were not deterred by the slightly higher
prices of farmers markets. When it comes to food,
35 value pro~es to involve much more than sheer price.
Nor did Feagan's consumers fully endorse
environmental matters like organic production or
concerns about how far their food had to travel,
atthough such factors are often touted as prime
40 reasons for shopping at farmers markets.
However noble, the abstract reasons are not as
mouthwatering as more palpable factors like social
engagement and fresh flavor.
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"It's fresh produce, it's local, especially in the Farmers are enjoying the resurgence of direct
45 summertime," says one shopper." And I like the marketing, too. It provides regular income. Many
ambience, I like the atmosphere. It's very personal. 65 build loyal followings and are able to field and
It's about being healthy. You're buying healthier food regpond to direct consumer requests.
because it's directly from the field." Shopper interaction with food producers can also
"It's the whole social aspect, and the culture of sweeten the experience of eating. Farmers are often
so eating," says another. good sources of tips for simple but scrumptious food
"We know a lot of the vendors," another shopper 70 preparation. The predominance of fruits and
told Feagan. "And there is interesting interaction, vegetables-as compared to conventional
and you are able to talk to them while you're buying • markets-encourages consumption of foods that
your food-it makes them part of your life. It's a boost health and protect against such chronic
ss social activity, just a great experience." diseases as diabetes and heart disease.
"Supermarkets are busy places that aren't
conducive to conversations," says Feagan, a professor
of contemporary stu~es at Wilfrid Laurier
University in Brantford, Ontario. Indeed, sociologists
60 have found that patrons have ten times more
conversations in farmers markets than in
conventional supermarkets.
Figure 1
United States FlU111ers Market Growth, 1994-2009
6,000
:3 5,000
~
~
e 4,ooo
~
Ql 3,137
] . 3,000
'c;
t 2,000
l 1,000
1994 1996 1998 2008 2009
Adapted from USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service, Farmers Market Survey.
Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page Is Illegal. 5
Reading Test
60 MINUTES, 47 QUESTIONS
Turn to Section 1 of your answer sheet to a~swer the questions in this sedion.
Each passage or pair of passages below is followed by a number of questions. After reading
each passage or pair, choose the best answer to each question based on what is stated or
Implied in the passage or passages and In any accompanying graphics (such as a table or
graph).
Questions 1-9 are based on the following passage. The next afternoon at his house, Papa warned me.
This passage Is adapted from Julia Alvarez, In the Name of "You must be careful, Herminia. Baez is not the old
Salom~. ©2000 by Julia Alvarez. The protagonist of this
Baez. He would not protect his old friend if he were
novel, Salome Urena, was a well-known poet from the 30 to find out my daughter was sowing seeds of sedition.
Dominican Republic. She wrote in the latter half of the No more publishing without my permission!"
1800s, a time of great political unrest In the nation. Of course, I promised not to do what! had never
done in the first place. The following week another
Papa was at our door with a copy of El Nacional poem by Herminia was published in the paper.
rolled up under one arm and a scared look on his 35 "Una lagrima" was not out-and-out seditious, but no
face. When he unrolled the paper. and thrust it dictator could have read those lines addressed to an
Line before me, my mouth fell open. There, on the front
exile without feeling challenged. Your patria 1 still in
s page, was my poem, "Recuerdos a un proscrito," chains ... The tears you shed for her have never
which I had included in the poems I gave to my dried ... Rumors in the capital were that El Nacional
friend Miguel. It was signed "Herminia." 40 would be shut down within the week. But the paper
"!Que pasa?" Mama asked, scouring the paper up continued publishing. It seemed Baez was showing
and down. off how freedom-loving he was.
10 Papa looked at her impatiently, and then glancing For several weeks, poems appeared by Hermini9:
over his shoulder and seeing that the top of the in the paper. "Contestaci6n," "A un poeta,"
Dutch door was stfll open, he motioned for me to 45 "Una esperanza," "Ru~go," "Un gemido," and finally,
close it. After he had read the poem out loud, my "La gloria del progreso," a poem that caused an
father said, "This is seditious!" uproar. Our old friend Don Eliseo Grull6n, a
15 My mother's face shone with fierce pride. "Good statesman himself, declared whoever this Herminia
for Herminia! She is saying what we all feel and don't was, she was going to bring down the regime with
have the courage to speak." so pen and paper.
Papa looked at her for a long moment, and you Papa was beside himself. Why was I bent 9n
could see that he was just now realizing that I had defying him? Exile would be the least ofit. I was
20 never shared my pen name with my mother. It was
going to get us all killed. Finally, I had to confess that
our special secret. . it was not my doing. I had allowed some
Later that night in·bed, Ramona and I figured out 55 acquaintances to have copies. "I'm sorry, Papa."
what must have happened. Miguel had given my
poem to his friends at El Nacional to publish. All we
25 could hope for was that he had not betrayed my true
identity.
Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page Is Illegal. 2
,11
But secretly, I was glad. Poetry, my poetry, was
waking up the body politic! Instead ofletting my
father's fears hold me back, I kept writing bolder
poems.
.! __-.
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
answer to the previous question?
60 Sometimes my hand would shake as I wrote. A) Lines 3-4 ("When ... open")
Herminia, Herminia, Herminia, I would whisper to B) Line 15 ("My ... pride")
myself. She was the brave one. She was not in thrall
to her fears. She did not quail at a harsh word. Or to C) Lines 20-21 ("It ... secret")
cry over every little thing, wasting her tears. D) Lines 51-52 ("Why ... him")
65 Secretly, in the dark cover of the night, Herminia
worked at setting Ia patria free.
And with every link she cracked open for
Ia patria. she was also setting me free. -- -'~ -•"--- ·
It can reasonably be inferred that Papa's "scared
1 homeland
look" (line 2) is caused by his concerns about
A) his friends' and neighbors' opinions.
• Which choice-best summarizes the passage?
A) A catastrophic event occurs, and the resulting
B) his family's safety and well-being.
C) the relationship between the narrator and her
mother.
disorder is analyzed. D) the narrator's desire to become a writer.
B) A painful confession is made, and several close
relationships unravel.
C) A long-standing commitment is broken, and a
Which choice provides the best evidence for the
series of repercussions follows.
answer to the previous question?
D) An unexpected discovery is made, and the events
A) Lines 10-13 ("Papa ... close it")
occurring after that discovery ate described.
B) Lines 13-14 ("After ... seditious")
•• What does the passage suggest about how Papa
relates to the narrator compared to how Mama
C) Lines 18-20 ("Papa ... mother")
D) Lines 52-53 ("I ..• killed")
relates?
A) Papa is a stricter disciplinarian with the narrator As used in line 8, "scouring" most nearly means
than Mama is.
A) searching.
B) Papa is more privy to the narrator's confidences
B) eroding.
than Mama is.
C) purging.
C) Papa is more complimentary of the narrator's
poetry than Mama is. D) waving.
D) Papa is more tolerant of the narrator's rebellious
nature than Mama is.
Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page Is Illegal. 3 ~6NTiNUE
, 1I
-- .=~--~- - .. ~~- -·___;____.... .. __: .:.F
As used in line 15, "fierce,. most nearly means
A) distressing.
B) struggling.
Questions 1G-18 are based on the following
passage and supplementary material.
The passage is adapted from Joshua Gowin, •Nature's
Bounty: Meet Your Maker." @2009 by Psychology Today.
From the beginning of the agricultural age to the
C) intense. mid-twentieth century, the majority of our food
D) hostile. came from local farms. Following the Second World
une War, the mass cultivation of durable produce in a
5 few locations enabled distribution countrywide to
warehouse-like supermarkets. Food shopping
became a less frequent event, driven largely by price
The italicized words in lines 37-39 serve mainly to and other "rational" economic considerations.
A) convey the lyrical cadence of Herminia's words. Over several decades, taste and quality-and,
10 eventually, nutrition and food safety-were sacrificed
B) illustrate the defiant nature of Herminia's poetry. to efficiencies of production, including produce
C) represent the urgent wishes of Dominican exiles. monoculture, which weakened crop health. As food
D) demonstrate the uplifting effects of patriotic anthropologist Amy Trubek points out, America
verse. produces a great array of potato chips but only a few
rs varieties of potato.
At soine point-perhaps when antibiotics were
needed to counter the effects of mass housing of
animals-the efficiencies gained by industrialization
The main purpose of lines 56-68 is to began yielding diminishing returns. Today, recalls of
A) convey the kind of inspiration the narrator 20 contaminated meat and produce occur with alarming
requires to help her write poetry. frequency.
More subtly, however, industrial farming
B) demonstrate the inhibiting impact that Papa's
ruptured the rich web of cultural experiences
words have had on the narrator.
traditionally tied to food-conviviality, a sense of
C) provide a sense of foreboding about the 25 connection, knowledge of food vendors, trust in the
influence that the narrator's poems may have. provenance offood, and links to the past.
' Increasingly, consumers crave the personal touch in
D) reveal the effect that the publication ofher
poems has had on the narrator. food shopping and see farmers markets as the way to
restore it.
30 Geographer Robert Feagan surveyed a hundred
shoppers at a farmers market in Ontario, Canada.
He found that despite having only moderate income,
the shoppers were not deterred by the slightly higher
prices of farmers markets. When it comes to food,
35 value pro~es to involve much more than sheer price.
Nor did Feagan's consumers fully endorse
environmental matters like organic production or
concerns about how far their food had to travel,
atthough such factors are often touted as prime
40 reasons for shopping at farmers markets.
However noble, the abstract reasons are not as
mouthwatering as more palpable factors like social
engagement and fresh flavor.
Urliluthollzed copying or f1!USe of any part of this page Is Illegal. 4 CONTINUE
, 1 1 'I
:.,1-1-
' I •
! I I
"It's fresh produce, it's local, especially in the Farmers are enjoying the resurgence of direct
45 summertime," says one shopper." And I like the marketing, too. It provides regular income. Many
ambience, I like the atmosphere. It's very personal. 65 build loyal followings and are able to field and
It's about being healthy. You're buying healthier food regpond to direct consumer requests.
because it's directly from the field." Shopper interaction with food producers can also
"It's the whole social aspect, and the culture of sweeten the experience of eating. Farmers are often
so eating," says another. good sources of tips for simple but scrumptious food
"We know a lot of the vendors," another shopper 70 preparation. The predominance of fruits and
told Feagan. "And there is interesting interaction, vegetables-as compared to conventional
and you are able to talk to them while you're buying • markets-encourages consumption of foods that
your food-it makes them part of your life. It's a boost health and protect against such chronic
ss social activity, just a great experience." diseases as diabetes and heart disease.
"Supermarkets are busy places that aren't
conducive to conversations," says Feagan, a professor
of contemporary stu~es at Wilfrid Laurier
University in Brantford, Ontario. Indeed, sociologists
60 have found that patrons have ten times more
conversations in farmers markets than in
conventional supermarkets.
Figure 1
United States FlU111ers Market Growth, 1994-2009
6,000
:3 5,000
~
~
e 4,ooo
~
Ql 3,137
] . 3,000
'c;
t 2,000
l 1,000
1994 1996 1998 2008 2009
Adapted from USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service, Farmers Market Survey.
Unauthorized copying or reuse of any part of this page Is Illegal. 5
